GENERAL SUMMARY.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 713, 13 August 1870, Page 4

GENERAL SUMMARY.

London, June 18. A change inljte Colonial policy is anticipated. ' The Queen's Birthday wa3 officially celebrated with great rejoicings. Several emigrant ships for Australia sailed during the month. The Queen gave a ball at Balmoral on the 3rd June, returned to Windsor on the Bth, and presides at a Cabinet Council on the 19th. Preparations are making for a grand State breakfast. Prince Leopold continues delicate. In the House of Commons, the Premier intimated that the Government would not tolerate any mutilation of the Irish Land Bill in the House of Commons. Telegrams from Pekin report an outbreak of a mob, who massacred the French Secretary, the Consul, priests, sisters of mercy, and three Russian subjects. The cathedral was burned to the ground. The Education Bill is causing much discussion. Watkins Williams' motion to disestablish the Church of Wales was forced on without the concurrence of the Liberal party, and was defeated by a heavy majority. When the discussion on the Contagious Diseases Act arose, Mr Crawford insisted on the exclusion of strangers and reporters. Fragmentary reports were afterwards published. Thp reporters were cheered by the House on retiring. The University Tests Bill passed by a majority of a hundred and twelve to five. The fejnale personators have been arraigned for felony and misdemeanor. The evidence disclosed gross immorality, throughout extensive circles. Blackwood's Magazine savagely reviews "Lothair," and attacks Disraeli for intending to make a breach of the couserative party. The Ascot Cup was won by Sabrinus. The Great Eastern has been moored at Sheerness in excellent condition.

The suddenness of Mr Charles Dickens' "death caused a profound sensation and universal grief. ■He was interred in Westminster Abbey. The Rev. Bramwell Shnth, of Birmingham, has committed suicide. The Exchequer Chamber has decided that Colonial Legislatures have power to grant indemnity for acts committed in tho Colonies. The April mails via California were delivered in London on the 20th June. The Degree of D.C.L. has been conferred on the Duke of Argyle. Mr Trevellyan has resigned his lordship of the Admiralty, in consequence of a difference with his colleagues on the Education question. A petition for winding up the European Assurance Company has been dismissed. The revenue of the United Kingdom for the quarter ending June was sixteen millions. : The House of Representatives at Washington has resolved that the President should ask England why American fishing boats were stopped on the fishing grounds. *..■•" The Grand Vizier of Turkey is. ill. A banquet was given by the Chairman of the British-Indian Telegraph Oompauy, at which messages were sent and replies received from the Viceroy of Egypt, the ■Viceroy of India, &o. President Grant alko exchanged messages with the Lord Mayor. Baron Lessepp's visits London to be decorated with the Star of India, v " Sargeant Kinglake aud Bishop Kilmore are dead. Earl Roden declines to sell his estate to the Prince of Wales. The Lord Chancellor of Ireland has been raised to the Peerage. A petition against Mr Heyren's return for Tipperary has been dismissed. Mr Foster has declared himself a convert to compulsory education. The second reading of the Clerical Disabilities Bill, for enabling clergymen to lay aside their orders, has been carried. , : White, who shot at Mr Bruxton, has been pronounced insane. Mr Bright's health has improved. Mr Disraeli has resumed his place in the House of Commons. The Roman papers affirm the Pope's infallibility, and say that all who deny it will be anathematised. Nine hundred dead bodies were found after the fire in the suburbs of Constantinople. The Greek brigand chief escaped to Turkey. Fiske, American Consul at Leith, is implicated in the female impersonations and misdeeds. , An explosion at Walthani Abbey of the powder mills caused several deaths. The Spectator thinks the New Zealand Loan <3ttara,nt<4<a is to b© vagarded as indicating a change of Colonial policy. The "Ministry saw their line of ■ policy would bfe opposed to the feeling of the natiorij;and receded in time. The latest New Zealand news, aud the' repulse of the Fenian .raiders, lead the Times to extol the wisdom of the selfprotection system. GALLE, July 15. The mail from England,' by the French mail steamer Volga, parsed through the

Suez Canal from Marseilles to Galle in 20 days. j Tlie French Government are organising a transport service via the Canal from Toulon to Saigon. The Avoca was four and a-half days late in arriving here. The other mails had left. The Australian mail will arrive one week late. The English telegraphic dates are to the 13th July. The Colonial policy is likely to be changed. The wool sales have passed off briskly. Arrived— The Somersetshire. Prim's nomination of Prince Leopold Hohenzollen for tho Throne "of Spain has almost led to a declaration of war by France. Pacific relations were restored on Leopold declining the candidature. Consols 92£. Colonial produce is brisk. The Irish Land Bill has been passed by the House of Lords; A serious collision occurred on the Northern Railway, killing 17 persons and wounding many others. Her Majesty gave a grand ball at Balmoral previous to her return to Windsor. Great distress prevails in France amongst the building trades. The harvest prospects are gloomy. A great massacre of Jews by Christians has taken place in Rouniania. In an outbreak of the mob at Pekin the French consul and a number of priests were massacred.